NURTURESHOCK: NEW THINKING ABOUT CHILDREN
"Prepare to be slack-jawed . . . . astonishing . . . ."
—Library Journal (Starred Review & One of Year's Best)
“a classic”
—NPR.com
One of the most influential books about children ever published, NurtureShock offers a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a library's worth of conventional wisdom. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, the authors demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring—because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Nothing like a parenting manual, NurtureShock gets to the core of how we grow, learn and live.
On more than 35 “Year's Best” lists, the book has become a worldwide phenomenon with editions published in 20 languages around the world. With its first hardcover edition published in the fall of 2009, NurtureShock was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than six months and was an Amazon Top Nonfiction 100 book for over a year.
